Petroleum products and REACH: looking ahead

May 15, 2014

The petroleum refining industry successfully met the first REACH deadline in December 2010 with the registration of all petroleum substances. This was a commendable achievement in view of the complexity of REACH itself and the additional difficulties of dealing with...

Use of motor fuels and lubricants: habits and practices of consumers in Europe

Feb 17, 2014

Report no. 4/14: A structured survey of European consumers was carried out across 250 participants to better understand their habits and practices concerning their use of vehicle fuels and lubricants. This report contains the findings of the survey. The information...

Proceedings of the Mineral Oil CRoss Industry IssueS (MOCRINIS) Workshop September 2013

Jan 24, 2014

Report no. 2/14: CONCAWE organised a 2-day Mineral Oil Cross Industry Issues (MOCRINIS)Workshop in Bologna, Italy in September 2013. The objective of the Workshop was to address topics that have arisen following the publication of results demonstrating the presence of...

Marine fuels and hydrogen sulphide

Oct 21, 2013

Report no. 8/13: The safe handling of petroleum cargoes and refined products that may contain hydrogen sulphide (H2S) is an important issue for the marine and inland fuel industries. Attention has refocused recently on H2S due to the revision of the ISO 8217:2012...

Acute and chronic aquatic toxicity of aromatic extracts. Summary of relevant test data

Sep 21, 2013

Report no. 6/13: This report describes the experimental procedures and the results obtained in acute and chronic ecotoxicity tests on several aromatic extracts samples. The samples were tested for toxicity to the rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, the crustacean...